German organization creates drone for heart-attack victims

A German organization has created a flying drone that could help save the lives of heart-attack victims by delivering defibrillators to the site of an incident.

The Defikopter, created by German organization Definetz and developer Height Tech, can be controlled using a smartphone app, tech site Mashable reported.

"In addition to avoiding traffic jams that would slow down ambulances and other on-the-ground vehicles, the drone would be useful in areas that are sparsely populated, or have difficult terrain for travel," Mashable quoted a German-language release on the drone as saying.

Defikopter comes in handy when human response times may be too slow, it added.

The drone is guided by a GPS-enabled smartphone app and parachutes defibrillators to victims of heart attacks and to emergency responders.

Defikopter can travel within a 10-km radius fly up to 70 kph.

Mashable cited data from the American Red Cross indicating a 10-percent dip in chances of survival for each minute that defibrillation is delayed.

"So a drone's quick response time may make all the difference," it said. — VC, GMA News